\t\t\tJames Bushnell \t\t<\/p>\n
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James \u201cJim\u201d Judson Bushnell, of Solana Beach, California, passed away August 23, 2026 at the age of 91. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin on November 13, 1934. The family relocated to Athens, Georgia, and then to Storrs, Connecticut, when Jim was 5 years old. At the age of 9, Jim was a survivor of the tragic 1944 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus canvas tent fire in Hartford, CT. Jim graduated from Windham High School in 1952. He later attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, then graduated with a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1957.<\/p>\n
In the sweetest love story, Jim married Mary Wallace Bushnell on September 1, 1955, who was his next door neighbor since they were ages 5 and 6 years old respectively. Together they moved to San Diego, CA in 1959 and later relocated to Solana Beach, CA in 1972. <\/p>\n
Jim was a key contributor as a HVAC design engineer, specializing in transportation, with a focus on keeping people and systems cool. This included working on Atlas-Centaur missiles and ground control, the Global Hawk unmanned drone, transit buses, NBC semi-trailers for televised golf tournaments, aircraft such as the L10-11, DC-10 and Boeing 777, and also passenger rail cars for BART, Washington Metro and Via Rail (Canada). He was actively employed as an in-house consultant for Mott MacDonald until the time of his passing; focusing on procuring passenger rail lines for the cities of Seattle, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. He was a 50-Year Distinguished Member of ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers). He served on many committees, including Transportation Air Conditioning, a Guideline Project Committee, a Rail\/Mass Transit subcommittee, as well as a contributing member to the ASHRAE Handbook. In January 2017, Jim was elevated to Fellow ASHRAE, the highest elected membership grade in the society. Jim was also the longtime owner of HVAC Consulting Services. <\/p>\n
Jim was a resident of Solana Beach for 54 years and was a member of the Solana Beach Civic and Historical Society. He was a friend to all. He loved spending time with his family, anything to do with trains, reading daily comic strips, traveling, and riding waves on his Boogie Board at Pillbox into his 70\u2019s. In addition, he loved listening to live music at the Belly Up, and enjoying time with friends at Chief\u2019s, his neighborhood sports bar, while cheering for his Wisconsin Badgers. He also cherished going to luncheons with his former colleagues from Convair and General Dynamics, affectionately known as the ROMEO\u2019s (Retired Old Men Eating Out).<\/p>\n
Jim was predeceased by his wife of nearly 66 years, Mary Wallace Bushnell, RN, his parents, Ralph Judson Bushnell, PhD and Elizabeth Prendergast Bushnell, PhD; as well as brothers Ralph, Frank, and Donald. <\/p>\n
Jim is survived by his children, Carl J. Bushnell (Debbie) of Porterville, CA, daughters Beverly A. Swingle (James) of Escondido, CA, and G. Roxanne Bybee (Brian) of Littleton, CO. He is also survived by his four grandchildren Andrew Swingle (Karen), Cassie Rapp (Shane), Carl Bushnell Jr., and Hunter Flint, as well as his five great-grandchildren, Julian and Nathan Swingle, Elowen, Elora, and Liliana Rapp, and many treasured nieces, nephews and in-laws. <\/p>\n
Jim was deeply loved by his family, friends, colleagues, and all who knew him. He will be remembered for his kindness, dry sense of humor, generosity, creativity, commitment to his family and friends, and his contributions to engineering. He will be deeply missed and forever remembered.<\/p>\n
A celebration of life will be held at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Bushnell OBITUARY James \u201cJim\u201d Judson Bushnell, of Solana Beach, California, passed away August 23, 2026 at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-459267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}